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Mash Central MDC youth leader out on bail
Jailed MDC Mashonaland Central youth chairperson Tonderai Samhu, together with four accomplices, were finally granted $100 bail each to challenge their six-year jail sentence.High Court judge ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 74 | by Staff reporter
Men jailed 2 years for defacing Mnangagwa banner
Two Chinhoyi men were jailed three years each by magistrate Tayengwa Chibanda for destroying a billboard with the portrait of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Darlington Willard Machemba (31) and ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 101 | by Staff reporter
'Starving villagers' skin neighbour's cow
TWO villagers from Siampongo in Binga have been jailed nine years each for skinning and stealing the carcass of their neighbour's cow, which had died on its own.Tedious Mudenda (38) and Fanuel...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:49hrs | 580 | by Staff reporter
Gulewankulu leader jailed
A 29-YEAR-OLD Mvurwi Gulewankulu leader was slapped with three months jail term by a Guruve magistrate yesterday for setting ablaze his colleague's hut after he revealed their secrets and positively i...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 13:44hrs | 2376 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Taxi driver's killer jailed
A suspected member of a four-man gang that allegedly kidnapped, robbed and brutally killed a Gweru taxi driver in December last year before dumping his body in a dam with his hands and legs tied, has ...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:53hrs | 425 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's ally jailed for gate-crashing ZEC command centre
MDC Vice President Morgen Komichi was Friday handed a wholly suspended three-month jail sentence and a $200 fine after being found guilty of gate-crashing a Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) command...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 16:43hrs | 1053 | by newzimbabwe
Man jailed for wearing army regalia
A 20-YEAR-OLD Banket man was jailed for one year by Chinhoyi magistrate Letwin Rwodzi for wearing Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) uniform.Malvern Makuranga of Templeton Farm, Banket, who is emplo...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:04hrs | 1166 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's deputy minister faces jail over fertiliser debt
FertiliSer manufacturer, ZFC Limited has approached the High court seeking an order to compel former Health deputy minister, Edwin Muguti to settle a $24 610 debt he owes the company.ZFC issue...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1172 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe wanted Mandela to die in prison'
Former President Robert Mugabe did not want South African struggle icon Nelson Mandela to be released from prison because he was going to steal his limelight.In a video that has gone viral on ...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 12:07hrs | 17272 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Joy for Mandiwanzira
HIGH Court Judge, Justice Esther Muremba has ordered a stop to former Information Communication Technology (ICT) minister Supa Mandiwanzira's trial at the magistrates' court until his application for ...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 22:48hrs | 3918 | by newzimbabwe
Man arrested for hating Mnangagwa's picture
Farai Gwaza from Dindi village under Chief Chitsungo in Pfungwe, Mashonaland East province has been arrested for publicly saying he does not like President Emmerson Mnangagwa's picture. In a n...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 10:47hrs | 4784 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Congregants go berserk, jailed
Ten men from a Shurugwi church were last week jailed for an effective 40 months each for assaulting villagers whom they accused of beating a fellow congregant.Bright Chiviviti (28), Charles Nd...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:48hrs | 1946 | by Staff reporter
The disconnect in electoral democracy
Every four years the world is drawn to watch in awe as the United States chooses their next president, even to the point of fanatically following the bi-partisan primary election races, prominent of w...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:06hrs | 159 | by Reason Wafawarova
Mugabe to Mnangagwa: From frying pan into fire?
A time comes when overwhelmed Africans desperately desire to see a change in leadership and don't pay rapt attention to the details of the next leadership provided it is a new face. This despe...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 13:51hrs | 3138 | by Omolola Lipede
Zimbabwe rogue soldiers accounted for, claims Justice minister
In January President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised that members of the security forces behind human rights violations during the January 14 protests would be prosecuted.Mnangagwa made the pledge...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:07hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
'Freedom that never was'
We continue chronicling the political life of Agrippa Samuriwo. The former Whawha detainee who tells our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati – from his farm in Chitomborwizi, Mashonaland West Province ...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:48hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora should be appointed Supreme Court Judge, He cannot be a President
Douglas Mwonzora is an advocate who studied at Goromonzi High and later went to the University of Zimbabwe were he studied law. At the University Mwonzora studied constitunal law and was instrumental ...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 18:45hrs | 8687 | by MTT (MDC Truth Trumpeter)
BREAKING: Top MDC leader granted bail...ordered not to use social media
Movement for Democratic Change Deputy Treasurer General Charlton Hwende has been granted bail by the High Court albeit stringent bail conditions that include not addressing public gatherings and not u...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 09:06hrs | 3273 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mandiwanzira being punished for being 'best minister'
FORMER Information Communication Technology (ICT) minister Supa Mandiwanzira emotionally took to the witness stand Tuesday complaining that he was being persecuted for being one of the best cabinet mi...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 07:07hrs | 1251 | by newzimbabwe
Rape convicted Zimra man freed
THE High Court has acquitted a Beitbridge-based Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officer who was serving an effective 10 years in jail for luring a 23-year-old female friend into his house in the bo...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 23:23hrs | 946 | by Staff reporter
MDC MP to languish in jail
MDC Harare West MP Joana Mamombe will have to languish in remand prison after the court dismissed her application challenging placement on remand in a subversion case. She will be back in court on Mar...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 10:25hrs | 1278 | by Staff reporter
Artuz official jailed 30 days for assault
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) secretary-general Robson Chere was on Monday sentenced to a 30-day jail term by Goromonzi magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka, over a violence incident wh...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 05:54hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance planned to win 2018 with 4.5m votes - failed, plan lacked even common sense
MDC Alliance leaders want to cast themselves as democrats who have embraced the democratic ethos of open and meaningful debate and democratic competition. They are not democrats and there is nothing l...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 23:05hrs | 1275 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Armed robber serving 25 years in court for four murders
AN alleged serial killer dubbed the "Underwear Robber" for stealing his victims' clothes and forcing them to walk naked, appeared in court yesterday for allegedly killing four people and robbing them ...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 22:50hrs | 1586 | by Staff reporter
Woman wants Matanga, Mathema jailed
Firebrand political activist Lynette Mudehwe has filed a court application demanding the incarceration of Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema and Commissioner-General of Police Godwin Matanga for faili...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 14:38hrs | 628 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Top MDC leader arrested at the airport
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change has announced that its Treasurer General Charlton Hwende has been arrested upon landing at the Robert Mugabe International airport. "Deputy Treasu...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 10:07hrs | 6135 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Chamisa failed to meet MDC target,' says Mwonzora
Tension continues to rise in the MDC ahead of its elective congress with secretary general Douglas Mwonzora saying the party president Nelson Chamisa failed to meet a target of attracting 4.5 million ...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:32hrs | 5029 | by Staff reporter
'I can get more votes than Chamisa in 2023' says Mwonzora
MDC Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora says he is a capable leader who is able to garner more votes that what MDC President Nelson Chamisa got in the last election if he was to be elected as Party Pre...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 18:53hrs | 10522 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Can the interbank FX market end the black market?
The recent monitory policy statement announcement by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) paved way for the re-introduction of the Interbank Foreign Exchange market as recommended by industry captains w...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 10:09hrs | 2312 | by Victor Bhoroma
Rogue police, soldiers turn to crime
More and more members of the security services are being arraigned before the courts for playing a major role in perpetrating blue-collar and violent crime.Analysts attribute the breakdown of ...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 18:25hrs | 1018 | by Staff reporter
Kereke, prison bosses embroiled in chicken scandal
Three senior Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officers have been arrested on charges of engaging in a chicken project with jailed rapist and former senior Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe offi...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 11:03hrs | 1735 | by Staff reporter
Munyaradzi Kereke getting VIP treatment in prison
THREE top Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officials face criminal abuse of office charges for allegedly giving preferential treatment to former Zanu-PF MP Munyaradzi Kereke.Ke...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 10:57hrs | 2406 | by newzimbabwe
Caretaker rapes, infects pupils
A CARETAKER at a school in Kezi, Matabeleland South has been jailed 30 years for raping two siblings aged 10 and 12 years and infecting one with syphilis.Sikhangele Sibanda (30) who works at D...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:34hrs | 1167 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe courts politicised, militarised'
Recent mandatory jail sentences of rioters which range from one year to 5 years are stiffer compared to those imposed in Smith's regime, lawyers and analysts contend.The harsh sentences being ...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:03hrs | 282 | by Maxwell Sibanda and Tarisai Machakaire
Zimbabwean man jailed 25 years gets another year for threatening to kill woman
A prisoner, originally from Zimbabwe, who threatened a woman via mobile phone from prison has had another year added to his 25-year sentence.Farai Kambarami, aged 36, of, was convicted of maki...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:15hrs | 708 | by Agencies
Soldier jailed for illegally entering Mugabe's Blue Roof residence
ZIMBABWE National Army (ZNA) solder has been sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment for illegally entering former president Robert Mugabe's Blue Roof mansion in Harare's Borrowdale area.Gunman N...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:11hrs | 673 | by newzimbabwe
SA citizen jailed 30 days for remaining in Zimbabwe without valid permit
A 34-year-old South African man accused of entering or remaining in Zimbabwe without a valid permit was Friday jailed 30 days with the option of paying a $20 fine by a Harare magistrate."The a...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:02hrs | 7840 | by newzimbabwe
Quick remedy to solve Zimbabwe crisis
Time has come when we all have to put politics aside and adopt progressive imagination to deal with our current scenario. It is not proper for country which was a bread basket nation before would adop...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 15:34hrs | 3625 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Former Army Commander, ex-defence minister opposes judge
Former Army Commander, ex-defence minister opposes Zimbabwe judgeZimbabwe's Justice Charles Hungwe is among five foreign judges facing rejection by Lesotho's murder-accused former Defence mini...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 15:11hrs | 3828 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Joburg concert shooter jailed 30 years
A ZIMBABWEAN national who killed his fellow countryman at Gift Amuli and Allan Ndoda's show at Hillbrow Theatre in Johannesburg two years ago, was on Tuesday sentenced to an effective 30 years in jail...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 06:12hrs | 951 | by Staff reporter
You ain't a saint Mr Mugabe
Reading through Jealousy Mawarire's Twitter handle, the alleged to utterances of former president Robert Mugabe on his birthday celebrations, one can see a clear confirmation that the old man's anger ...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 13:55hrs | 3241 | by Tafara Shumba
Is Zimbabwe the next Venezuela?
History teaches that things may get worse in both countries before they get better.This weekend's news that protesters were gunned down at Venezuela's border while pro-regime thugs burned truc...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 08:13hrs | 7215 | by John Fund I nationalreview.com
Jailed robber faces fresh charges
JAILED robber Jobson Shonhe, who robbed several buses and passengers at gunpoint late last year, together with his accomplices, was last week convicted on three counts of attempted murder and two coun...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 06:40hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
Jealous man sets ex-wife's kitchen ablaze
A 44-YEAR-OLD Mvurwi man has been jailed for two years after razing a kitchen belonging to his former wife and destroying valuables worth $370.Gilbert Chiwawa's sentence was wholly suspended b...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 06:58hrs | 1236 | by Staff reporter
Meet Strive Masiyiwa and Chanakira's funder
Andrew Young, Jr has been noted as one of the major people who funded Telecoms Guru Strive Masiyiwa and Banker Nigel Chanakira, it has emerged. Shadowy Twitter character Mmatigari revealed thi...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 14:28hrs | 7759 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tendai Biti appeals against sentence
MDC Deputy National Chairperson Tendai Biti has appealed against his conviction by Harare magistrate where he was accused of violating the Electoral Act."Human rights lawyer and MDC-Alliance V...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 08:15hrs | 1186 | by Mandla Ndlovu
RBZ will not raid anyone's foreign currency account
BANK balances for both RTGS dollars and FCA Nostros will remain the same and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe will not raid anyone's foreign currency account, the Governor, Dr John Mangudya has said....Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:39hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
Man to pay $1,000 for killing antelope
A 32-year-old Mwenezi poacher was last week ordered to pay $1 000 to Mujingwe Conservancy after he killed an antelope in the sanctuary. Orderly Ndlovu of Situpa Village under Chief Mazetese wa...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 22:29hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
Top cop jailed 4 years for attempted murder
A HARARE magistrate yesterday jailed Borrowdale police officer-in-charge Simbarashe Sibanda to four years for attempted murder of his police girlfriend in a dispute over relish.Sibanda (40) wa...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 07:14hrs | 655 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya kills forex black market?
INDUSTRIALISTS and market watchers have hailed the monetary policy statement presented yesterday by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya, saying it will kill the foreign currency p...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 22:40hrs | 2957 | by Staff reporter
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